One of last year's most successful buildups in Car Craft's big-block engineseries was the Mopar 440. Featured in "Mo-Power: 535hp 440" (Nov. '01), the 0.060-over, 10.23:1 mill originally churned out ...

Straight off the bat, it's the engine sizes. The Mopar 383 V8 displaces 383 cubic inches (6.3 liters), sitting between the 340 (5.6 liters) and 440 (7.2 liters). The 340, 383, and 440 all are part of ...

For a substantial number of engines made over the course of automobile history, most of them bear the name of the car company that produced them, like Chevrolet or Ford. After all, it makes it easy to ...